Hours Quote by Marilynne Robinson

It's not a man's working hours that are important--it's his leisure hours. That's the mistake we all make.

— Agatha Christie

No man can make good during working hours who does the wrong thing outside of working hours.

— William J. H. Boetcker

You cannot give me an instance of any man who is permitted to lay out his own time contriving not to have tedious hours.

— Samuel Johnson

Work is as much a necessity to man as eating and sleeping. Even those who do nothing that can be called work still imagine…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

Well, I thought, as I tidied up the kitchen, there's no question that a man who works all week needs to relax on the…

— Lucille Kallen

It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours;…

— William Faulkner

Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time more completely and leaves him less his own master, than any sort of…

— Edmund Burke

The money men make from their willingness to work the least desirable hours is not a sign of discrimination against women, but a sign…

— Warren Farrell

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

— Theophrastus

Actually, the laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day; he cannot afford to sustain the manliest relations tomen; his…

— Henry David Thoreau

If the ordinary wage-earner worked four hours a day, there would be enough for everybody and no unemployment -- assuming a certain very moderate…

— Bertrand Russell

“One of the saddest things is that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work.…

— William Faulkner